Broken?

[John Colvin]

On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 20:23:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/11/14, 1:18 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 11 March 2014 at 20:16:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> wrote:
>>> On 3/11/14, 11:24 AM, Daniel Kozák wrote:
>>>> Steven Schveighoffer píše v Út 11. 03. 2014 v 14:14 -0400:
>>>>
>>>>> Consider how long Walter resisted the call to make 
>>>>> functions final by
>>>>> default, until he suddenly switched sides. I think of it 
>>>>> like a
>>>>> dictatorship with 1000 advisors. And no death squads :)
>>>>
>>>> What is the current status of this?
>>>
>>> I am opposed to making functions final by default.
>>
>> Because of the breakage, or because you think 
>> virtual-by-default makes
>> more sense?
>
> A combination of both. The change would break a lot of code and 
> it seems to me final vs. virtual by default is a judgment call 
> more than an obvious decision in favor of final. That said, if 
> I'd do things over again I'd advocate final by default. But 
> we're not doing things over again.
>
> Andrei

You do support the introduction of the virtual keyword though, 
yes?